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Clinton-Gore Accomplishments: Supporting Women and Families

PRESIDENT
CLINTON AND VICE PRESIDENT GORE:

Supporting
Women and FamiliesJanuary, 2000

EXPANDING ECONOMIC
OPPORTUNITIES:

Tax Cuts for Working Families. 15 million working families
receive additional tax relief through the President's expansion of the Earned
Income Tax Credit. In 1998, the EITC lifted 4.3 million people out of poverty -
double the number lifted out of poverty by the EITC in 1993.This year the
President proposed expanding the EITC to provide tax relief to an additional
6.4 million hard-pressed working families.

Helping Parents Balance Work and Family.The Family and Medical
Leave Act allows workers to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for
seriously ill family members, new born or adoptive children, or their own
serious health problems without fear of losing their jobs. Nearly 91 million
workers (71% of the labor force) are covered and millions of workers have
benefited from FMLA since its enactment.

Narrowing the Wage Gap.The average woman who works full-time
earns approximately 75 cents for each dollar that an average man earns --the
narrowest wage gap ever. President Clinton and Vice President Gore have called
on Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would strengthen laws
prohibiting wage discrimination. This year, the President has proposed a $27
million initiative to help the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission and the
Labor Department fight wage discrimination.

More Than Triple the Number of Small Business Loans to Women
Entrepreneurs. Between 1993 and 1998, the Small Business Administration
approved over 72,000 loans to women entrepreneurs. In 1998 alone, the SBA
granted more than 11,000 loans, worth over $1.8 million, to women small
business owners, more than triple the number of loans granted in 1992.

Lowest Unemployment in Nearly 50 Years.The unemployment rate for
women was 4.2 percent in November 1999 -- staying around the lowest level since
1953.

INVESTING IN
EDUCATION:

Providing Early Education to Nearly 900,000 Children with Head
Start.The President and Vice President have expanded Head Start funding by
90 percent since 1993. Head Start will reach approximately 880,000 low-income
children in FY 2000 and, with the President's proposed increase for the
program, will be on the way to reaching the President's goal of serving 1
million children and their families by the year 2002.The Administration also
created Early Head Start, bringing Head Start's successful comprehensive
services to families with children ages zero to three, and set high quality
standards for both programs.

Opening the Doors of College to All Americans.President Clinton
and Vice President Gore proposed and passed the $1,500 HOPE Scholarship
credits, making the first two years of college universally available for 6
million students, and the Lifetime Learning Tax Credit, a 20 percent credit
will help more than 7 million students offset tuition costs for college or
lifetime learning. The Administration expanded theWork Study Program to allow 1
million students to work their way through college, and increased the maximum
Pell Grant award to $3,300 -- a 43 percent increase since 1993. This year, the
President proposed a $77 million increase in Work Study, and an increase in the
maximum Pell Grantto $3,500.

Protecting Title IX.. The Clinton-Gore Administration firmly
supports and enforces Title IX, which has enabled young women to participate
fully in high school and college athletics. When Title IX was passed more than
25 years ago, only 300,000 girls participated in high school sports. Today,
well over 2 million participate.

STRENGTHENING FAMILIES
AND COMMUNITIES:

Increasing Access to Child Care.The Clinton-Gore Administration
has increased child care funding by 80 percent since 1993, helping parents to
pay for the care of about 1.5 million children in FY98. And President Clinton
won $182 million to improve the quality of childcare for America's working
families in FY99.

Increasing Child Support Collections. President Clinton signed
into law the toughest child support crackdown in history. Federal and state
child support programs broke new records in child support collections -- nearly
doubling the amount collected in 1992. The number of child support cases with
collections rose 59 percent, from 2.8 million 1992 to 4.5 million in1998.

New Tools in the Fight Against Domestic Violence. President
Clinton championed and signed into law the Violence Against Women Act,
bolstering local law enforcement, prosecution, and victims' services to better
address these crimes. The Clinton-Gore Administration more than quadrupled
funding to domestic violence shelters and signed the Interstate Stalking
Punishment and Prevention Act, making it a Federal crime to cross state lines
intending to injure or harass another person. And theAdministration established
a nationwide 24-hour Domestic Violence Hotline, which provides immediate crisis
intervention, counseling and referrals for those in need.

Putting 100,000 More Police on the Streets. In 1999, ahead of
scheduleand under budget, the Clinton-Gore Administration met its commitment to
fund an additional 100,000 police officers for our communities. As a part of
the COPS Program, the President announced new grants to increase community
policing in high-crime and underserved neighborhoods. To help keep crime at
record lows, the President won funding in the FY 2000 budget for the first
installment toward his goal to hire up to 50,000 more officers by 2005.

More than 470,000 Felons, Fugitives and Domestic Abusers Denied
Guns.Since the President signed the Brady Bill into law, more than 470,000
felons, fugitives and domestic abusers have been prevented from purchasing guns
through Brady background checks.

IMPROVING OUR NATION'S
HEALTH:

Enacted Single Largest Investment in Health Care for Children
since1965.The $24 billion Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will
provide health care coverage for up to five million children. Two million
children have already been enrolled, and in October 1999 President Clinton
announced new outreach initiatives to enroll millions more uninsured, eligible
children.

Promoting Reproductive Health. The Clinton-Gore Administration
has taken strong steps to protect a woman's right to choose and to promote safe
reproductive health services for women. The President signed the Freedom of
Access to Clinic Entrances Act; provided contraceptive coverage to more than a
million women covered by federal health plans; provided family planning
services to low income women through the Medicaid program; stood up against
attempts to prohibit the FDA from approving RU-486; and continues to fight
restrictions on international family planning.

Expanding Family Planning Services. This year, the President's
budget includes a $274 million investment -- a 15% increase -- to prevent
unintended pregnancy and ensure access to safe, high quality family planning
services. This investment will help fund clinics and community-based health
services that reach more than 5 million women and families.

Signed Legislation to End Drive-Through Deliveries. President
Clinton signed into law common sense legislation that requires health plans to
allow new mothers to remain in the hospital for at least 48 hours following
most normal deliveries and 96 hours after a Cesarean section.

Increased Funding for Breast Cancer Research. Since 1993, funding
for breast cancer research, prevention and treatment has doubled, from $283
million in FY93 to $550 million in FY98 (Health and Human
Services'discretionary funding). Proposed new funding to learn more about
environmental causes of diseases like breast and prostate cancer.

Expanding Coverage to Uninsured Americans. The President has
proposes a10-year, $110 billion initiative that would dramatically improve the
affordability of and access to health insurance. The proposal would expand
coverage to at least 5 million uninsured Americans and expand access to
millions more. If enacted, these policies would be the largest expansion of
coverage since Medicare was created in 1965.

Strengthening and Modernizing Medicare. Nearly 60 percent of
Medicare beneficiaries are women and this proportion rises with age - over 4 in
5 people over age 100 are women. The President has proposed a comprehensive
plan to reform and modernize Medicare by making the program more efficient and
competitive, extending the solvency of the Health Insurance trust fund, and
modernizing benefits -- including adding a long overdue, voluntary prescription
drug benefit.

WOMEN AS PARTNERS IN
DECISION MAKING:

Appointed More Women Than Any Other President. Women make up 44
percent of Clinton Administration appointees, and 29 percent of the positions
requiring Senate confirmation are held by women. Additionally, 30 percent of
the President's judicial nominees are women, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the
second woman to serve on the Supreme Court.